Tag: Mele Ukulele

I made it through the week! It was kind of a tough day, I was up all night learning about “Spiky-Leaky Syndrome” and then spent most of the morning comparing my experience to the description. There does seem to be some overlap, but the alignment isn’t perfect. Then again, the paper describing the syndrome was only released two years ago, so this really is cutting edge medicine.

Anyway, the music was fun. It’s cool to find people who like the same music that I do, and then to sing for them. I’m really enjoying that part of the gig, though my confidence and self-esteem is still

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • A Whole New World – Aladdin
  • Arabian Nights – Aladdin
  • Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton
• Works in Progress
  • Friend Like Me – Aladdin
  • Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • I don’t wanna be me – Type O Negative
  • Breezeblocks – Alt-J
  • Where is my Mind – Pixies
• Song of the Day: Autumn Leaves
  • It’s too early for autumn leaves to be falling, but I remembered that I had learned this song a while back, and I was quite happy with how it came out when it resurfaced. Always nice when that happens!

It was a busy day, and a fun day. Started with a voice lesson where I learned yet another new thing about singing that I get to start practicing. Then I had an appointment with a CFS leak specialist doctor who instructed me to look in to “spiky CSF leaks” which in my brief investigation does sound somewhat relevant. He wants me to go to Oahu for more imaging, so I guess that’s the direction that is heading.

Finally on today’s stream we had a bunch of new people stop by. Opened up with playing through my set of 9 songs by The Strokes, and then had a nice long chat with a new viewer who got me to attempt a handful of AJR songs. I’d never heard of the band or the songs, but I attempted them. It’s always fun to see how different my version reading off the chart alone is from the actual song. I liked the lyrics a lot, so I’ll definitely be looking into that band more. And, further failing at “quality over quantity” – 8 new songs to learn got added to the set today XD

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • The Big Goodbye – AJR
  • God is Really Real – AJR
  • A Dog Song – AJR
• Works in Progress
  • Free Bird – Lynard Skynard
  • Heart Beats in its Cage – The Strokes
  • The Next Episode – Dr. Dre
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • Wanderlust King – Gogol Bordello
  • Coin Operated Boy – Dresden Dolls
  • Is this it? – The Strokes
• Song of the Day: Ode to the Mets – The Strokes
  • Someone who joined the Uke Tribe Discord introduced me to this song because they wanted to play it, and I really liked it. I still don’t really know what it means, and don’t know how it relates to the Mets, but who cares the song is good. I am assuming the Mets are the baseball team right? Well, further proof that you don’t actually need to understand a song to enjoy it.

Another fun day of practice. I got in a mood and ran though every song by Radiohead that I know, and then started working on the Beatles.

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
  • Brick in the Wall – Pink Floyd
• Works in Progress
  • Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
  • Come Sail Away – Styx
  • Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • Let Down – Radiohead
  • The Bends – Radiohead
  • Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – The Beatles
• Song of the Day: Billy Jean – Michael Jackson
  • It came to my attention that I’ve been singing the wrong notes for this, so I spent some time trying to fix that.

Was a busy day: had a voice lesson and then participated in the UU Open Mic, that ended early so I did a shorter stream afterwards. I may or may not stream tomorrow, we’ll see how I’m feeling.

Played a bunch of the old emo ukulele songs today, then spent more time working on “Almost like being in Love”

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • Ghostbusters Theme – Ray Parker Jr.
  • Play that funky music -Wild Cherry
• Works in Progress
  • Almost Like Being In Love – Alan Jay Lerner
  • Love is a place – Metric
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • Welcome Home – Coheed and Cambria
  • One Armed Scissor – At the Drive In
  • Misery business – Paramore
• Song of the Day: Baby, You wouldn’t last a minute on the Creek – Chiodos
  • One of the few songs I actually went out of my way to figure out a way to play it on uke, but I forget how to do it if I don’t play it often enough. It’s a super fun song though, and I think I at least capture its spirit. Sure wish I could actually rip a crazy solo in the breakdown though. Oh well, maybe someday with a full band.

It’s kind of wild how by the end of the stream, I’m so tired that I’ve almost completely forgotten what I just did all day. One thing I know is that I’ve failed to stop adding new songs to the list! I just keep thinking of more songs to play, and it sounds like fun to learn them so… whats a few more songs to fake?

I may or may not stream tomorrow, I’ll be doing the Ukulele Underground Open Mic and last time it was too much and I got a massive headache afterwards. We’ll see.

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
  • Last Nite – The Strokes
  • Love is a Place – Metric
• Works in Progress
  • Almost Like Being in Love – Alan Jay Lerner
  • Actual Cannibal Shia LeBeouf – Ron Cantor
  • Hawaii Aloha
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Every Morning – Sugar Ray
  • Inside Out – Eve 6
• Song of the Day: Almost Like Being in Love
  • One of the great things about “properly” learning songs is you encounter musical ideas you’ve never seen before. Today I had to pause and muse for a while of a specific chord progression found in this song from F9sus to F7b9. It was super interesting, and executed in a way I had never seen or imagined before. And it sounds pretty neat too! Definitely something I’ll be thinking about for a while.

I said I learned enough, I need to focus on quality, improving the songs I already know now. So of course, I added several new songs to learn today.

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • Shia Labeouf Actual Cannibal – Rob Cantor
  • Smelly Cat + Friends Theme
  • Almost Like Being In Love – Alan Jay Lerner
• Works in Progress
  • Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
  • Blue Skies – Irving Berlin
  • Blue Velvet – Bobby Vinton
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • Whats going on? – Elio Mei
  • The Great Divide – Noah Kahan
  • Cicada Days – Will Wood
• Song of the Day: Here’s to the Night – Eve 6
  • It took me a couple tries to find the key, but I made it through this one with a bunch of reverb and I think it was neat. I was sort of GAS’ing over getting a new reverb pedal, when I know the solution is to learn to use the one I have better, so I found a new setting combo and sung this song with it. No new pedals for me… today.

I slept so much last night I woke up with a headache. Barely made it through the day, but I made it. TGIF

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • Two Princes – Spin Doctors
  • Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong – Spin Doctors
  • Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
• Works in Progress
  • Debaser – Pixies
  • Accept Yourself – The Smiths
  • Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • A little Aloha – Mana’o Company
  • Homegrown – Jimmy Weeks Project
  • Beer – Reel Big Fish
• Song of the Day: Roller Skates – Steel Pulse
  • Life without music, I can’t go on oh no.

Had a good voice lesson earlier, and attempted a lot of new songs today. It’s almost the end of the month so it’s about time to update the streamer song list.

Here are some songs that stood out to me today: 

• New Songs Attempted
  • These Things – She Wants Revenge
  • Caribou – Pixies
  • I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross
  • You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones
• Works in Progress
  • Accept Yourself – The Smiths
  • Broken Wings – Mr. Mister
  • The Next Episode – Dr. Dre
• Learned Songs Revisited
  • It’s Tricky – Run DMC
  • YMCA – Village People
  • Freakin Out – Dexter and the Moonrocks
• Song of the Day: Semi-Charmed Kind of Life – Third Eye Blind
  • I think I’m going to do this one along with Save Tonight for the UU Open mic next week. It’s just a great song. I guess I’m going for a 90s alt rock vibe this time.